The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1887-04-20
ABOUT PEOPLE AND THINGS.


ABOUT PEOPLE AND THINGS.
JOAQUIN MILLER has bought GAO acres of land
near Shasta, Cal, and will become farmer, if
he isn't too indolent
HJALMER HJoRTH BoYEsEN gets $4,000 a
year from the Century; So 900 flor his writings
and So. 900 flor the is in his njame.
S1FTINGs; Judge, to a very homely old maid
Miss, in what year were you bornW Witness
In the year 1866" Jndge-"Before or after
Christi"
Mrs. CHARLES W. PETERSON, of Philadelphia,
widow of the founder of Peterson's Magazine,
has decided to publish and edit the magazine
herself.
HARpERs Bazaar: Mistress Ito new servant)-
1--WE have breakfast generally about O'clock
New Servant-"Well, mum, il amt down to
it don't wait"
SARAH BERNHARDT wearsa head ornament in
Theodore" which is mass of sapphIres. ru.
bies, emeralds, hyacinths, moonstones, pearls
and diamonds.
IT was Roscoe Conkling who first called George
William Curtis ''the man mlliner." He after
ward repented of this and gave him the name of
Miss Arimintha"
BILLY EMERSON, the minstrel, who writes his
first name with little b. receives $500 week
and travels in private with his wife
wherever he goes
JOHN BUNYAN used the slang expression 'it's
cold day for them" in an essay against the
Roman Catholic clergy which makes the phrase
about 900 years old.
QUEEN VICTORIA must be rather cranky old
lady. On her recent trip to the continent two
beds of peculiar pattern. such as she always
sleeps in, had to be forwarded for her accommo-
dation
Mrs. j. G. HOLLAND. widow of the we'll known
novelist and poet, is living at Orange Valley, N.
j., with her daughter. Mrs. Van Wagenen, and
is c good health, although she is troubled with
poor eye-sght.
MRS. LOGAN has not yet received the salary
due her husband from the government at the
has not applied for it The fund in her behalf
placed her beyond immediate want
HER Majesty, Queen Victoria is to erect
memorial church at Cannes. France, which is
to be placed recumbent figure of the late Duke
of Albany, which will be a replica of the one in
the Wolsey Chapel at Windsor.
PROMINENT publisher remarks ''that books
are getting to be drug on the market since the
newspapers have many departments, and call
to .heir aid all the best authors in the country
Between newspapers and periodicals, books have
no chance.
WILLIAM r. McCABE, speaker Of the Della
ware House of Representatives, is next to the
youngest member OF that body. He entered the
Legislature at the age of twenty-six He is a
handsome young man. good parliamentarian
and an eloquent good speaker.
AT negro wedding in Griffin, Ga, short
time ago, when the words. 'love, honor and
obey" were come to. the groom interrupted the
preacher and said: "Read that again sab: read
it wunce mo- SOS de lady kin ketch de full So
lemnity of de meanin. Use been married befo'
of
them will not drink much water as he wants
unless it be from another mans WE'LL the second
requires his family to write small hand" to
save ink. and the third stops his clock at night
in order to save the wear and tear of the ma
chinery.
LORD TENNYsoNs time to go into the baking
business has surely come According to the
late Mrs. Anne Gilchrist. Mr.. Tennyson has
said that when ne ceases to sell as o. oct he
shall start the Tennyson biscuit an invention
of Mrs. Tennysons that he considers surprising
~ excellent"
The Misses Bayard are mitigating the depth
of their first years mourning for their double
bereavement. Miss Bayards visiting card is
still bordered with black but less deeply. She
was present in broad-brimmed black straw
hat and becoming suit to match as one of the
| sponsors for little Dorothy" on Easter Monday.
GOVERNOR CHURCH, of Dakota, tells this
| story: A year ago. when 1 was making a
| journey into the Black Hills, the train stopped
IN the prairie, and. looking out, saw q solitary
house. The conductor CHANGED to come along
| and I asked who lived there. That said he
| lis where Mr.. - lives, and prints his paper y
There wasn't another house within a hundred
| miles.
A SMALL boy in Boston, who had unfortunate
| ~ learned to swear, was rebuked by his father
'Wno told you that I swore?' asked the bad
| little boy "Oh. a little bird told me-" said the
father. The boy stood and looked out Of the
| window scowllng at some sparrows which were
scolding and chattering. Then he had happy
| thought Il know VINO told you," he said. 1T
| was one of those - sparrows'
BURLINGTON Free Press: Mrs. Blobson was
| mixing some medicine for Mr.. Blohson, who was
| SICK when she was astonished to see her hus-
| band wink at her in very emphatic manner
What do you mean by winkine at in that
| way. Mr.. Blobson?" she demanded. '.F-force
| of habit" stammered Mr.. Blobson: mo- mol
don't mean that! I mean have got something
| in my eye" well. l haven't" responded Mrs.
| B. with asperity.
AGAssIz revolutionizsd American science by a
| few words soon after he came to this country.
At a scientific club In Boston discussion arose
on DIR. Hitchcock's new book on Bird Tracks
The praises had been warm. when a young
foreigner. a stranger to most of those present,
| arose and said: The defect in these book is
| that it is deescreepteeve, and not comparateeve
That sentence marked crisis in American
| scientific progress.
The old silk hat worn by Abraham Lincoln
when he left Springfield, ILL.,, for Washington,
to be inaugurated in 1861, is carefully preserved
by Mr. George Gibson, of New York. It is badly
battered old "stove pipe" and has on the inside
| lining the autograph of "A. Lincoln" Lincoln
when he reached New York was presented with
new hat by enterprising halter, and gave
him the old hat IN return. Mr. Gibson obtained
it from his father, who was wellknown anti